ajpeck wrote:
> Is there a way to forcibly terminate a thread after a specified time
> regardless if the thread is finished executing. I have threads which
> call certain network functions that have very long hard coded timeouts,
> such as 5 mins. A no response of 5 secs is sufficient for me to know
> that there is a problem and the nature of it is not needed (device
> switched off, network break, etc). These threads only write out a status
> result (threads::shared variable) at the very end of the thread
> execution, thus terminating the thread early from within the parent
> thread and with no result written is good enough for me to know that
> there is a problem.
>
> Is there a way to impliment timed thread termination, if so I would
> appreciate it very much for a very simple example.
I tried (using Win32::API) to get the current thread ID and store
in a shared vrbl by the sub thread and terminate the sub thread
from the root thread, but I get an error on the TerminateThread :
Bad file descriptor (The handle is invalid)
even though the thread ID looks fine.
So unless that can be resolved, that won't work.
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